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Will the Supreme Court’s intervention bring relief to cadets disabled during training?
The Court took up the case suo moto and urged the Union to look for ways to ensure better care, compensation and insurance for cadets
19th Aug 2025
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SCO.LR | 2025 | Volume 8 | Issue 3
In this Issue of SCO.LR, we bring you five important judgements from 11 August to 16 August 2025
18th Aug 2025
Analysis
Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia’s notable judgements
Highlights include a dissent in a long-pending case, a stirring verdict on language recognition and a reiteration of evidence law principles
18th Aug 2025
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The question of independence
The burning legal and political questions of today invariably contain the footmarks of the early days of Country, Constitution and Court
17th Aug 2025
Analysis
Stray dog ‘menace’: Making sense of the Supreme Court’s intervention
A three-judge Bench reserved its decision on whether to stay an earlier Order directing authorities to free Delhi and the NCR of stray dogs
16th Aug 2025
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Divyang, ‘Sitaare Zameen Par’ and the constitutional lives of the disabled
The Censor’s directive to include a message from the PM reflects the State’s tendency to contend with the disabled on its own, flawed terms
14th Aug 2025
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Speaker admits motion for Justice Varma’s removal: What lies ahead?
The Speaker constituted a three-member committee under the Judges Inquiry Act. We explain the steps involved in the parliamentary process
14th Aug 2025
From the editor's desk
The differential levels of scrutiny the Court applies to studies on caste vis-a-vis economic backwardness may have deep and abiding implications for how affirmative action policies are crafted in the future, and is especially prescient in a situation where challenges to EWS reservations remain pending.
The Mandal and Sinho Commissions: A Study in Contrasts
Studies examining caste-based backwardness have a higher bar to pass than those studying backwardness within the ‘general category'.
SCO Team
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Analysis
Can the Supreme Court Provide Reservations for Orphans?
With the petition seeking orphans to be identified as a backward class, are we moving away from a caste centric definition of backwardness.
8th Jun 2021
Analysis
Part I—The Mandal and Sinho Commissions: A Study in Contrasts
There is a marked difference in the methodology employed by the Mandal and Major Sinho Commissions in studying backwardness.
11th Jan 2022
Analysis
SC Offers Hope for OBC Reservations in Maharashtra Municipal Elections
The Maharashtra government was directed to submit data justifying its OBC reservation policy to the State Commission for Backward Castes.
20th Jan 2022
Analysis
Medical Students Relieved as SC Issues Order in PG NEET Case
DESK BRIEF: The SC issued an Order allowing the Union to immediately commence counselling for admissions to postgraduate medical programmes.
8th Jan 2022
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Do you have a right to the “truth serum” or narco analysis test in a criminal case?
8th Jan 2022